Month: October 2019

innovation marketing 

Strangling Innovation

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 507 Views behavioural economics, design, ecosystem, marketing, Rory Sutherland, service design

Not even the best innovation team can escape bad systems. Without looking at your systems, innovation might just get suffocated.

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innovation 

Innovation: The Simple Definition

October 28, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 678 Views adaptation, circular economy, design, evaluation, healthcare, printing press, sustainability, value

Innovation definitions can sometimes create more confusion than clarity. Looking at what it is and does can change that. Innovation

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education & learning 

A Changing Future for Education and Learning

October 23, 2019October 21, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 583 Views Coursera, design, education, learning, mobile phones

As long as there have been people, there’s been education. The goal of learning remains, while the methods are changing.

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education & learning innovation marketing 

Failure and Learning

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 479 Views complexity, evaluation, innovation, learning, measurement, net promoter score, research

Failure deals in absolutes while learning is about discovering possibility. Focusing on the former often leads us to miss the

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design design thinking systems science 

Simple System Mapping

October 17, 2019October 7, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 615 Views design, service design, sketch map, system mapping, systems thinking

System maps pack a lot of information on a page. A simple, cost-effective approach can make this resource accessible. System

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health promotion psychology 

Talking About Mental Health at Work

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 815 Views health, health promotion, mental health, podcast, wellbeing, workplace

Our mental health and well-being affect our work above everything. Taking care of ourselves is not an option; it’s essential.

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marketing psychology Toolkit 

Presenting Tips for the Anxious Innovator

October 8, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 538 Views anxiety, communication, knowledge translation, positive psychology, presentation, psychology, tools

The opportunity to teach is a chance to influence others. Here’s some tips and tricks to make that moment better.

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innovation 

Evolutionary Innovation: How We Transform

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 508 Views biology, developmental design, evolutionary innovation, innovation, learning, transformation

Innovation is often portrayed as dramatic, disruptive processes and outcomes. That perception might be keeping us from making real transformations.

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health promotion psychology 

Team Work and Care

October 4, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 375 Views anxiety, censemaking, mental health, performance, team, workplace

Teams are complicated beasts and require special care and attention. New research shows how to care for teams and ourselves.

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behaviour change psychology 

Behavioural Design, Attention & Change

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 552 Views attention, behaviour change, behavioural design, book, change, design, distraction, nir eyal, psychology

How do we design for attention in a distracted world? Nir Eyal has some answers to provide the focus we

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